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From: wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X11, Ethernet, Shared Hard Disks
Message-ID: <618@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 89 23:16:26 GMT
References: <22987@louie.udel.EDU> <848@boing.UUCP>
Reply-To: wdimm@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (William Dimm)
Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <848@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>Presently there is no capability to share a amiga harddisk with any other machine.
>There is work in progress to make this happen but I don't think anyone has any
>real time schedules they can commit to yet....

Really?  Way back when I bought my CLtd SCSI controller for the A1000 their
docs talked about attaching multiple Amigas to a hard drive.  It seemed
that the main difficulty was that if one computer wrote to a partition, 
another computer wouldn't know that the table of free blocks needed 
updating.  BUT, since WB 1.3 allows you to lock a partition for read
only, I would think that you would be safe if you made sure that only
one computer had write permissions for any particular partition.  Just make
sure each SCSI controller has a different unit #, & go to it, right?
Does anyone know for sure if this works?
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